Odysseus was born on isle of Ithaca. Young Odysseus also liked to hunt with his dog, Argos, often going along with him. He is not a god, but he does have a connection with the gods on his mother's side of the family. While on one hunting trip, Odysseus was gored by a wild boar, an incident that left a scar. How does Odysseus die? Having come to Ithaca, he drove away some of the cattle, and when Odysseus defended them, Telegonus 3 wounded him with the spear he had in his hands, which was barbed with the spine of a stingray, and Odysseus died of the wound.
But others say that Odysseus died of Old Age, as Tiresias predicted. How long is Homer's Odyssey? The average reader will spend 2 hours and 48 minutes reading The Odyssey at WPM words per minute. Is the Odyssey a poem? The Odyssey is a long poem. It is comprised of 24 books containing over 12,00 lines. It is a narrative poem. It tells the story of the return of Odysseus to his home in Ithaca after 20 years of war and wandering.
Is the Odyssey a true story? Evidence that the Odyssey and Iliad may be true after all They believe that the 8th BC century palace which they have discovered in Ithaca, in the Ionian Seas west of mainland Greece, proves that he was a real historical figure.
It is the only one of the palaces mentioned in Homer's epic poems that hadn't been found. How long was the Trojan War? What is a check exception? What are the names of Santa's 12 reindeers? See Featured Authors Answering Questions.
To answer questions about The Odyssey , please sign up. John P. Since the Odyssey is the better of the two books, read it second so that you will be saving the best for last. It is weird though reading from Odysseus being a secondary character in the Iliad to being the hero in the Odyssey. Write a comment The Iliad provides you huge context, involving the Trojan War, plenty of characters including Odysseus , and the cosmovision of Ancient Greece.
View 1 comment. Michael Magg To be fair , both of them are captivating in a different way. But in concert, they reflect on the totality of life. And I am so bold as to believe that this characteristic is part of why these two epics surpassed all others and survived antiquity: any other epic from their period would have been redundant. I spent the first decade or more of my study of Homer passionately dedicated to the Iliad.
I started working on the Odyssey primarily because I found students responding to it more easily than to the Iliad. I also grew more interested in how that epic engaged with other traditions, specifically those of Thebes and the so-called epic cycle. But what really changed my relationship with the Odyssey was my own life. The Iliad made sense to me. In , I taught that other epic three times. We also welcomed two children into the world and lost my father to a sudden sickness in between.
There is nothing like losing a parent and becoming one in the same year to force a reconsideration of life. These years also marked half a decade in Texas and a decade since I left New England. But I also started to see more in the epic itself. If the Iliad is a raging maelstrom of fire and blood, the Odyssey is a lit fuse which may or may not ever lead to a detonation.
If the Iliad is loud and brash and confusing, the Odyssey is so subtle that many of us make the mistake of thinking it is simple. It is extremely sensitive to human mental function , to how we create ourselves through narrative , and to the therapeutic function of stories. In antiquity, traditions of allegory were extremely influential among various approaches to the epics.
Among these, one of my favorite readings of the epics as complements frames one as a narrative concerned with the development and excellence of the body and the other about the virtues of the mind. From these summaries it is clear that the Iliad is really about the bravery of the body while the Odyssey concerns the nobility of the soul.
It is not right to fault the poet if he does not only present virtues in his poem, but includes as well weaknesses of spirit, pains, pleasures, fears and desires. For it is necessary that the poet show not just noble characters but weak ones too—without these unexpected accomplishments do not appear—from all of these it is possible that an audience will choose the better ones.
Of course, not all contrasts made between the two epics were positive. Pseudo -Longinus believed that the differences in the poem were results of the senility of the Iliad poet as he turned to the Odyssey. For it is clear in many ways that this epic was composed second.
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